New Ulm weekly review., 1887-02-23

ence committee: Increase for MilwAukee
harbOr from $40. 600 to $50, 600; Kenosha
lfroms$2, 500 to IS, 600; Superior from S TO-
600 seI2, 900; st. Croix river, 81, 800 to
SIC, 900; and new item of $40, coo for
Ashland.
The court oi appeal in London has rem
dered decision upholding the validity of
'the Swan Edison Cheesebro patent for car
bon flaments for incandescent lamps.
The British war office committee has de-
| cided to recommend the Lee-Burton maga-
| zine rifle.
| Owing to the very heavy snow storm re-
Gently, outgoing trains al Montreal were all
| Cancelled, and many visitors were forced to
remain another day.
| Winnipeg Manitoban: The four remain
ing Indian prisoners at the provincial peni.
tentiary, confined for participatio in the
! rebellion OF 1885, were released, and left
for their western homes. Among the num-
was Big Bear, i'm plicated in the Frog Lake
massacre and the abduction OF Mr.. w. J..
Mclean and family.
Sidney Walsh, aged twnety. three, is un-
der arrest in Cleveland for committing
twenty one burglaries. His wife is in jail
| with him as an accomplice.
Jealousy caused Watkins Dupay of
| Farmville, Va, to shoot and Kill his wife
and fatally shoot and stab himself.
| Mrs. Richard Jesse is dead at Margate,
England. Her maiden name was Emily
Tennyson, and she was engaged to be mar.
ried to Arthur Henry Hallam, whose
death prompted Alfred Tennyson to write
| 'In Mem oriam."
| A project is on foot in London for send
ing 5000 Jewish colonists to Mexico to be
distributed among the agricultural g.
! tricts. The pr posed colonists are vic
tins OF Russian persecution.
The Iowa railroad commissioners have
decided the case brought from Glenwood
against the Burlington and Quincy, in
which is involved an important applica-
ton OF the interstate commerce law. Com.
plaint,was made that higher rates from
Iowa points are changed to Glenwood that
| to Council Bluffs a greater distance. The
| board held that the principle OF the inter-
state commerce bill relative to the long
and short hauls should apply to points
| within the state. and to charge more for
longer than short distance is extortion.
Capt. William Turtle, one OF the most
noted OF American detectives, died in Chi
! cago OF paralysis. His most celebrated
capture was that of Thomas Morrison and
! William Prout. who robbed this American
Express campany OF S41, 900 in 1866.
| Benjamin Calendar & Co., OF Boston,
| wholesale hardware have failed and gone in
to insolvency. Liabilities, SLY 900; assets
unknown. The senior partner, Benjamin
| Calendar, died a month ago, and the sur.
| viving partners have found the firm in.
| solvent.
| It is alleged that Lieut.. John j. Shaw,
Sixth infantry, has been guilty of duplcat.
| ing his pay accounts. He left his station
| at Fort Douglas, Utah, on leave OF alb
sence last December, and SO far as heard
! frn m Inn fn TO for fhoE
month have been presented through banks
and claim agents, three OF which have been
| paid by paymasters in different parts oi
| the country. 1t is feared that the returns
OF the pay department will sh ow a similar
condition in his accounts for the month OF
January. He was last heard from at Hot
Springs.
Thomas B. Connery. OF New York, was
confirmed to be secretary OF legation at
the City OF Mexico.
The president has allowed the act ap-
propriating 100000 year to provide
arms and equipments for the militia to
failure to sign the bill within ten days is
regarded as an oversight, as he was not
known to object to it.
James Russell Lowell will be in London
again bout Easter.
A man arrested for the supposed murder
OF c. A. Scofield, of Winnipeg proves to be
Scofeld himself.
The trial of Dillon, Redmond, O'Brien
and Others, on the charge OF conspiracy
for agitation in favor Of the plan OF ca M
paign, has opened. F.. Redmond WAS absent
on account OF illness. Traverse's counsel
| raised several technical points against the
proceedings.
At the Graves sale OF pictures in New
York c. P. Huntington, the railr Dad
magnate, paid $40, 900 for one of Corot's
pictures.
The estate of the late Moses Williams OF
Boston amounts to about 81, 100000
Gen. Banks has farm near Boston
where he spends all his spare cash on
agricultural experiments.
Senator Davis aud wife of Minnesota ar
rived in Washington and are quartered at
Wizards Senator Davis was taken in
charge on the floor OF the senate by Sena-
tors Spooner and Sabin and introduced
to the more prominent members OF that
body. He made a very favorable impress
sion.
PostofFices established Minnesota:
Kimball, Stearns county. Wisconsin:
Saxon, Ashland county. Discontinued.
Mcknight, Humboldt county. Postmas-
ters comm isoned- Minnesota Milan, o.
X. Opjordan.
Hiram W. Hall was nominated post
master at st. Charles, MINI. He
is Democrat and editor and proprie-
tor OF the st. Charles News His nomina-
tion was secured by Congressmanel elect
! Wilson. Mr.. Hall succeeds John Picket,
whose term OF office has expired.
Telegrams from European capitals are
increasingly warlike. Berlin dispatches as
sert that the German government has re-
ceived positive advices OF continued con-
centrations OF French troops in direct
| contradiction to the instructions alleged to
have been issued by Gen. Boulanger. Late
Paris kilograms confirm the report of the
Alsace- Lorraine garrisons being brought
up to war strength and give additional ac
counts of heavy movements OF German
troops toward the French frontier Wen
ma dispatches state that the ministry OF
war have suddenly stopped work on
French and Russia contracts for magazine
! rifles, revolvers and munitions OF war at
all the factories having contracts on hand.
All factories are now working exclusively
! on small arms and ammunition for the